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For the third Mother’s Day in a row, Color Of Change supported the Black Mama’s Bail Out, a grassroots effort to bring women home — and amplify calls to end money bail and the growing incarceration of women.

Years ago, Color Of Change members pressured Fox to pull Cops, the enormously high-rated and racist reality TV show from its network. Now, a new podcast explains how the show created false and dangerous ideals about police and law enforcement, just as we are about to launch our new research report on crime TV shows.

COC’s Sr Criminal Justice Campaign Director Scott Roberts weighs in on Dallas’s new plan to cut incarceration. It’s “just a start,” he says, but a clear example of how local communities can successfully push prosecutors to take action.

Facebook announces it’ll ban white nationalist and white separatist content after an outcry from civil rights groups including Color Of Change, which has been on the company’s case for years for its questionable civil rights practices and failure to reign in hate groups.

Thought Leadership

Rashad’s video op-ed for NOW THIS on growing Black representation — in front and behind the camera in Hollywood — and why Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time is such a leap forward for children of color. video here.

This Q&A published in the Huffington Post discusses how Rashad Robinson and Color Of Change have built a winning advocacy strategy, harnessing the power and potential of the Internet, to move Black people — and all people in this country — forward. Full Q&A is below. We Built This by Taryn Finley, Huffington Post, 2/1/2019. […]

Published in Nonprofit Quarterly By RASHAD ROBINSON | January 30, 2019 This article is part of NPQ’s cluster about the power of narrative in social change work. (Other articles in this series can be found at the end.) This particular article was originally published by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley, on April 18, […]

Rashad speaks at the North Star Fund Awards about how to capitalize on this moment of political agitation following the election. He underscores the necessity of supporting Black-led interventions to accelerate social change and letting Black people truly take the lead in strategy and power in the movement for racial justice. ﻿Full video here.

Rashad passionately asks, “Are We Going to Get This Right?” as he speaks about building a real resistance in response to the 2016 elections. He talks about mistaking presence for power, the danger he saw in Trump’s racist attacks on President Obama, and how to build a true movement for change. Full speech here.

Rashad Robinson speaks on how our media presents a distorted view of crime, grossly out of sync with the actual stats, that makes people think Black people are to be feared. Presented by Media Matters and Color Of Change in March 2015. Full video here.